Federalism In America

America’s form of government is federalism. This is unique to other forms of government throughout the world. It provides a balance of powers to all areas of government i.e. legislative, judicial and executive branches etc. It is and always will be a constant changing form of government. Within this form of government, it has levels, with the Federal Government being supreme, then states and so on. Each level has enough power to do what it is supposed to do but not enough to become tyrannous. America’s Federalism prevails over all other governments, with the exception of other democratic/federal-esque governments, and is better in more ways than one for numerous reasons. For one to believe that America’s Federalism is the best government, …show more content…
Then it says “… formed by establishment of closely knit union of two or more smaller political communities…”, now these are our states, all fifty of them, “possess and exercise…home rule, but are bound by the constitution and constitutionally valid laws of the national government…”. So in laymen’s terms, our states operate under the constitution. As any American should know, our government is completely based around The United States Constitution and our view of it can change from time to time. That is the beauty of American Federalism. Now that we know what federalism is, one can understand why Americas Federalism is the best form of Government and why we chose …show more content…
For example, in our form of government, when we want to pass something at all whether it be an amendment or a bill, it is a very slow and tedious process. With some exceptions when we want to pass an amendment. It has to go through multiple levels of government and takes a while, whereas if we had a centralized supreme power it would take a considerable less time. If this is one of our “major” disadvantages, compared to North Korea, where Kim’s people are starving under communism and a multitude of other problems; then I think America has a reliably stable government with major problems here and minor problems here; but as stated before no government is perfect. The Founding Fathers of our great country built our government on the principle that everyone has inalienable rights and an equal and fair distribution of power. Their answer to this dream was our “American Federalism”. This is the most effective form of government there could possibly be today and reigns supreme over all other forms who oppose it, communism, monarchy, fascism, or even a socialist republic, our federalism is undoubtedly an unparalleled form of